Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 11:57:24 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: "Daniel J. Zaccariello" <marisombra@mindspring.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, John Papalia <john@jpepconsulting.com>, Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>, smkelly@slashnet.org, insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IRC Message-ID: <22488.957380244@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 May 2000 22:10:43 %2B0530." <20000503221042.A550@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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It may be that only the "heavy hitters" in this thread see it for the senseless waste of time that it is, I don't know. I do know that discussing IRC on the freebsd-advocacy list is never going to change the behavior of anyone on IRC or make *ANY* substantive difference so why keep on beating this dead horse? It's dead, Jim! You got your amended FAQ entry but evidently this wasn't enough to keep you and Mr. Zaccariello from harping on about it. You want the channel renamed? Fine, figure out how to force channel renaming on IRC. You want everyone involved on such channels to be kinder, gentler, thousand points of light George Bush fans? Fine, figure out how to engineer the IRC people with neurolinguistic programming techniques or something - perhaps you could write a set of 'bots which spit special mind-altering phrases like "gosh, I feeling helpful" or "Get out and vote for George W Bush!" into the channel every 15 minutes. Knock yourselves out, but for goddsake stop whining about it here in -advocacy and stop trying to widen it into some sort of "Why FreeBSD-core hates newbies" polemic. This isn't about newbies or the project's attitute towards them and it never will be for as long as the topic of discussion involves IRC. If you genuinely want to talk about THAT then let's discuss how to make the freebsd-questions list a better place or how to improve the web pages. Stop trying to drag everyone here into the EFNET brush wars under the pretense of somehow trying to advance the cause of advocacy! - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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